Become a Wikipedian Writing Wikipedia Articles about YA

Become a Wikipedian: Writing Wikipedia Articles about YA Novels in the Classroom Alexa Garvoille alexa. garvoille@gmail. com Resources available at garvoille. wordpress. com/wikipedia Grafton High School, Yorktown, VA #J 35 @ms_garvoille

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Publish on Wikipedia The project Practice edits in Sandbox Collaboratively draft complete article in Google Docs Research Literature circles Student choice of YA or bildungsroman, groups or individual 5 weeks #J 35 @ms_garvoille

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RL. 1, RIT. 1 Cite strong and thorough evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly. RIT. 2 Provide an objective summary of a text W. 2 Write informative/explanatory texts W. 8 Gather information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. #J 35 @ms_garvoille

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en. wikipedia. org Search for your favorite YA book, non-canonized novel, or literary topic taught in your classroom Where do you see inadequate, unfair, or incorrect coverage? #J 35 @ms_garvoille

What do your students need to be able to do in order to fix that article? #J 35 @ms_garvoille

Neutral Point of View -unbiased -no jacket copy #J 35 @ms_garvoille

Neutral Point of View 20 white slips Neutral or Biased? #J 35 @ms_garvoille

Neutral Point of View 11 neutral 9 biased #J 35 @ms_garvoille

Writing about Literature: Real-World Perspective - present tense - reference to the fictional nature of the work #J 35 @ms_garvoille

Real-World Perspective 12 yellow slips Real-World or In-Universe Perspective? #J 35 @ms_garvoille

Real-World Perspective 6 real-world 6 in-universe #J 35 @ms_garvoille

What does a Wikipedia article on a novel need? #J 35 @ms_garvoille

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Alexa Garvoille Wikipedia username: Roseclearfield alexa. garvoille@gmail. com Resources available at garvoille. wordpress. com/wikipedia Grafton High School, VA #J 35 @ms_garvoille

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